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The effort to make a breakthrough cancer therapy cheaper

It’s an attractive model. Demand for CAR-T often outstrips supply, leading to long wait times. “There is a growing tension around the limited access that we’re seeing for cell and gene therapies... Read more »

A brief, weird history of brainwashing

Over the following years, in the wake of the Korean War, “brainwashing” grew into a catchall explanation for any kind of radical or nonconformist behavior in the United States. Social scientists and... Read more »

This US startup makes a crucial chip material and is taking on a Japanese giant

Thintronics is promising a product purpose-built for the computing demands of the AI era—a suite of new materials that the company claims have higher insulating properties and, if adopted, could mean data... Read more »

Scaling individual impact: Insights from an AI engineering leader

Doing this well requires building a diverse network across the organization. Building and nurturing relationships in different functional areas is crucial to IC success, giving you the context to spot impactful problems... Read more »

The Download: AI is making robots more helpful, and the problem with cleaning up pollution

November 2023 Technically speaking, neuroscientists have been able to read your mind for decades. It’s not easy, mind you. First, you must lie motionless within a hulking fMRI scanner, perhaps for hours,... Read more »

The inadvertent geoengineering experiment that the world is now shutting off

Because of the cutoff date, the study did not capture a more recent contributor to these trends. Starting in 2020, under new regulations from the International Maritime Organization, commercial shipping vessels have... Read more »

Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?

Stretch weighs about 50 pounds. It has a small mobile base, a stick with a camera dangling off it, and an adjustable arm featuring a gripper with suction cups at the ends.... Read more »

Modernizing data with strategic purpose

This report seeks to understand organizations’ objectives for their data modernization projects and how they are implementing such initiatives. To do so, it surveyed senior data and technology executives across industries. The... Read more »

The Download: generating AI memories, and China’s softening tech regulation

As a six-year-old growing up in Barcelona, Spain, during the 1940s, Maria would visit a neighbor’s apartment in her building when she wanted to see her father. From there, she could try... Read more »

Why China’s regulators are softening on its tech sector

So I was inspired after talking to Angela Huyue Zhang, a law professor in Hong Kong who’s coming to teach at the University of Southern California this fall, about her new book... Read more »